Here's the $10,000 toilet that everybody is freaking out about

Earlier this month, The New York Times published a story headlined "The Cult of the Toto Toilet," which highlighted how obsessed people were with the high-end toilets from the Japanese toilet manufacturer.

A New York City businessman featured in the story held off going to the bathroom before he left on a flight from Milan because he wanted to do his business in his Toto.

Now, we understand why. The Toto is indeed a throne fit for a king and queen.

Meet Toto's Neorest 750

The company's top of the line toilet, which retails for $9,800, has a heated seat, a personal cleansing and drying system, and an air purifying system, among other features.

It also cleans itself, automatically flushes, and has a lid that opens and closes by itself.

The toilet bowl is coated with zirconium, which helps repel waste.

The Neorest detects when a person gets close to it, and it sprays the inside of the bowl's ceramic surface with water, moistening it, which also helps prevent anything from sticking.

There's a UV light built into the lid.

When the toilet isn't being used, the UV light shines into the bowl to break down germ and waste particles.

Here's how the UV light works:

It also has an automatic night light.

No more stumbling around in the middle of the night looking for a light switch.

Here's the personal cleansing wand.

The self-cleaning retractable wand sprays warm, aerated water for both front and rear cleansing. The NYT's Steven Kurutz wrote that with systems like these, "the need for toilet paper is virtually eliminated."

It also has a wireless remote.

Use the remote to control the cleansing wand. You can adjust the temperature and pressure of the water and control the drying process.

It has a special flushing system that uses two jets of water at the same time.

One jet of water goes to the bottom of the bowl, and the other goes around the rim.

Toto calls this "tornado dual flush technology."

Toto

It uses one gallon of water per flush for a full flush, and 0.8 gallons of water for a light flush.

It's only 17-inches high.

The toilet, which is ADA compliant, is only 17" from the base to the top of the toilet seat, which Toto says "is the ergonomically correct height for a person to comfortably sit down and rise from the unit with ease."

If you're not ready to drop $10,000 on Neorest 750, you may consider a washlet.

A washlet is a toilet seat that fits over your existing toilet and offers some of the same cleansing features as the Neorest 750.

Toto's Washlets start at $499.

The washlet S350e, pictured here, is Toto's top of the line model, which retails for $1,500.

Like the Neorest 750, the S350e has heated seats, a personal cleansing and drying system, and a deodorizer.

Toto

You can choose whether you want the water to pulsate or oscillate.

It also comes with a remote control.

Like the Neorest, you use this to control the washing and drying functions.

Here's the S350e in action:

But if you're you're willing to spend more, you can get Toto toilet integrated with a washlet.

This is the Connect+ System with a Carlyle II 1G toilet & Washlet S350e. The package retails for $2,394.